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Updates from GitHub Actions 9
- investigating
We are investigating reports of degraded availability for Actions
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- investigating
We are investigating elevated queue times on Actions Jobs running on Standard Hosted Runners in East US affecting 10% of runs
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- investigating
We are investigating elevated queue times and failures on Actions Jobs running on Hosted Runners in East US affecting 8% of runs. Hosted Runners with private networking can fail over to a different Azure region to mitigate the issue.
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- investigating
We are working with our compute provider to alleviate elevated queue times and failures for Actions Jobs running on Hosted Runners in the East US region affecting 10% of runs. Hosted Runners with private networking can fail over to a different Region to mitigate the issue.
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- investigating
We've applied a mitigation for long queue times and failures on Standard Hosted Runners and are monitoring for full recovery. Hosted Runners with Private Networking in the East US region remain affected as we continue working with our compute provider to restore capacity.
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- investigating
We've seen signs of recovery for Standard Hosted Runners and are continuing to monitor for full recovery. Hosted Runners with Private Networking in the East US region remain affected as we continue working with our compute provider to restore capacity.
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- investigating
Standard hosted runners have now reached full recovery. Hosted Runners with Private Networking in the East US region remain degraded as we continue working with our compute provider to restore capacity. Hosted Runners with private networking can fail over to a different Region to mitigate the issue.
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- investigating
Actions is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
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- resolved
On May 5, 2026, from approximately 13:22 UTC to 17:05 UTC, GitHub Actions hosted runners in the East US region were degraded. 13.5% of jobs requesting a standard runner failed and ~16% of requested Larger Runners with private networking pinned to East US failed or were delayed by more than 5 minutes. Copilot Code Review requests were also impacted. Approximately 8,500 code review requests timed out during this window. Affected users saw an error comment on their pull requests and were able to retry by re-requesting a review. Most runner requests were picked up by other regions automatically, but a portion of requests still routing to East US were impacted. This was triggered by a scale-up operation for hosted runner VMs in the East US region. This is a regular operation, but the VM create load hit an internal rate limit when VM creates pull images from storage. Existing backoff logic was not triggered because of the response code returned in this case. The rate limiting and VM creation failures were mitigated by reducing load to allow for recovery and allowing queued work to be processed. By 15:34 UTC, queued and failed job assignments were mostly mitigated, with less than 0.5% of runner assignments impacted between 15:34 and full recovery at 17:05. We are improving our system’s throttling behavior when limits occur, improving our controls to more quickly mitigate similar situations in the future, and reviewing all limits end-to-end for similar operations. We also immediately paused all scale and similar operations until these changes are in place and validated.
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Questions about DWN-5bb3433f8e
Is GitHub Actions still down?
No, this incident was resolved 2026-05-05 17:26 UTC. For GitHub Actions's live state, see https://down.guide/github-actions.
How long did it last?
3h 49m, from 2026-05-05 13:37 UTC to 2026-05-05 17:26 UTC, by the times GitHub Actions posted.
What was affected?
GitHub Actions named Actions in us.
What caused it?
GitHub Actions hasn't published a root cause. If it does, it shows here.
Where does this come from?
GitHub Actions's official status page, https://www.githubstatus.com, quoted verbatim. down.guide's own probes, reports and social counts are labeled as ours.